Gemma Arterton Quotes
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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Money just draws flies.
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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
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When I find someone who is worth it, I'll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.
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Mackerel is sustainable and healthy.
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I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
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I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
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Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.
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I stay around the young boys in the studio; I want to learn from them, and at the same time, I have a lot to offer them.
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The PGA Championship, last of the majors each year, might well be accustomed to having fun poked at it by the print press for being mired in August, but this isn't fair.
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Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.
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Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.
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My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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It's a social contract we make. We're willing to give up certain things. We give you the right to tax us. We give you the right to lock us up. We give you the right to put us on surveillance, search our homes, whatever and, in exchange, we get a functioning society that keeps us relatively safe, and that's the tradeoff we make.
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I think when you write a script, you can't help but pick up on what is happening in the press at that time and what's going on in the newspapers, so you reflect on that and you feed it into your stories in some way.
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It is good to see women doctors and lawyers and executives. I can visualize a woman president. If I were British, I would have supported Margaret Thatcher. But no benefit to anyone can come from women serving in combat.
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I don't think I ever got parts that interested me. Well, I did occasionally, but more often than not, they did not interest me.
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The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.
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You can't connect with something you're not passionate about.
